Early Relations between the United States and China. 109 



Another American missionary society, "The Domestic and 

 Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church 

 in the United States," estabUshed a station in Batavia. In May, 



1834, it determined to begin work in China as soon as the proper 

 man presented himself. In July, Rev. Henry Lockwood was 

 appointed, and in March, 1835, Rev. Francis R. Hanson. The 

 two sailed in a few months and arrived at Canton October 29th, 



1835. Here they found the field of labor so limited that they 

 soon removed to Singapore to learn the language, and after a 

 few months spent there, they went to Batavia.^^^ Here they 

 planned to learn the language, to prepare and distribute tracts, 

 and to establish schools and a dispensary,^^" the usual missionary 

 program of the time. Both, however, had but a short term of 

 service. Hanson retired in 1837 because of poor health,"** and 

 Lockwood in 1838 for the same reason. ^®^ The mission thus 

 imperilled was saved by Rev, William Jones Boone, M.D., after- 

 ward Bishop Boone. He arrived at Batavia in October, 1837, 

 and worked there until 1840, seemingly escaping the restrictions 

 of the Dutch government. In tlie latter year, however, when 

 affairs in the Chinese Empire were approaching a crisis, he 

 brought his work in Java to an end and went to Macao.^^^ 



A. C. Condit, but they do not seem to have been especially for the 

 Chinese. Annual Report of the A. B. C. F. M., Jan., 1839, Missny. 

 Herald, 35 : 11. 



"* William Cutter, Missionary Efforts of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church in the United States. In History of American Missions to the 

 Heathen, Worcester, 1840, p. 590. Letter of Lockwood, Oct., 1836, in 

 Spirit of Missions, 4:267 (Aug., 1839). Letter of Boone, Nov. 15, 1837, 

 Spirit of Alissions, 3:210. 



^'"^ Letter of Lockvv^ood and Hanson, Oct., 1836, The Spirit of Missions, 

 New York, 1837, 2 : 219, July, 1837. 



"" Spirit of Missions, 3 : 66. Wylie, Mem. of Prot. Miss., p. 88. 



"' Spirit of Missions, 4: 596, letter of Boone, Apr. 3, 1839. 



"" Spirit of Missions, 7 : 310. 



